Stefanie Verhoef (Amsterdam, 1988) is a Dutch/Danish artist and contemporary jewellery designer living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

She makes contemporary jewellery with a conceptual character. Her designs are defined by a rough edged yet delicate aesthetic.

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She was trained as a goldsmith during a technical education in Amsterdam and after that has received her BA in Fine Arts and in Education from the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming (now: Breitner Academie).

Throughout her art studies, jewellery and design always played a big role. Being trained as a goldsmith, a fine arts artist and an art teacher, she learned many ways of creating and expressing.

Designing and making jewellery has always been the core and working within the contemporary and conceptual field is where she feels most comfortable.

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"Every single piece is created by hand by myself. From idea to concept to craft to jewel.

In the design process I'm always looking for original and innovative contrasts. It’s an overarching theme in the diverse collections and I would almost call it an obsessive urge to do so. By looking for unusual opposites and placing them together, both interacting elements can fully show their potential.

Contrasting is a way for me to find balance in a design and I find balanced asymmetry calming and satisfying. The contrasts can be found in unconventional stone setting, use of color, material or in the shape itself. All balanced together it defines my aesthetic; rough edged yet surprisingly delicate pieces."

My work reflects my state of mind and as creating is a mode of thinking, it is a mode of processing.
In the ongoing process of creating, I allow my perspective to shift and my designs to grow.

My collections tell stories of personal observations or fascinations. And as stories are endless, so are most of the collections; the designs keep developing and thus a collection is never really finished.

Reading back about them in chronological order reads as chapters of a personal journey.

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